Science, Computers and Technology Law

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Want to make a million? Just set up your Web page, get a merchant account to take credit cards, lay off your staff and watch the money roll in from around the world. If only it were really that easy. While the Internet offers unprecedented ...

E-mail is a staple of corporate culture. While e-mail has greatly increased the potential for better business communication and information access, it has its downside. Few employers have yet to fully appreciate the extent to which company e-mail ...

Before launching into a discussion of the specific Web sites that should be on your Web travel plans, allow me to offer a few general observations: The birth of Internet commerce has coincided with a period of intense activity in development of ...

On February 8, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the first major overhaul of American telecommunications policy in nearly 62 years, the Telecommunications Act of 1996. One of the goals of this historic legislation is to promote the ...

Genetic information is being used with increasing frequency and in a wide variety of different applications. At the same time, however, the use of such information has raised concerns about the potential for misuse and abuse. As a result, there have ...

Although a last minute regulatory effort had become necessary, the German legislator and the rulemakers in the German ministry for Posts and Telecommunications (BMPT) expect that all relevant European telecommunication legislation will be ...

On October 19, 1998, the President signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act, S.2392 (the "Act"). The Act is , both IT and non-IT suppliers of goods and services, to regarding the extent of their Year 2000 readiness as ...